Recap
Finally, Long Shiyu yawned: “So, why did you suddenly come here?”
Shen Chaomu was silent for a long time this time.
Then he said: “Because I think this may be where everything started…not your story, but my story.”
But the young man beside him didn’t answer. His shoulders were heavy, Shen Chaomu turned his head to look, Long Shiyu had already fallen asleep, leaning on his shoulder, a few soft black hairs tickled his chin, and the smell on his body was like the wilderness after the rain.
So Shen Chaomu just smiled silently, and leaned back against the back of the chair. The wind was blowing very comfortably, and gradually there was a bit of lazy sleepiness.
Buck told the coordinates of the treasure house, which is in the Kahala galaxy. They will be heading there soon.
There, the hunters tried to find the skeleton of the ghost whale.
Back under the ancient tree, the barbecue stalls were deserted, the wildfire and recent frenzy driving away tourists and locals. But the evening air was pleasant, the wind rustling through the golden grass and the forest leaves. Their starship was scheduled to depart Tabu tomorrow, and the group had gathered for a final meal.
The rising flames licked the meat, and the translucent oil dripped down with a tempting aroma. Shen Chaomu had just returned from a meeting, and before he had time to change his formal attire, he brought Long Shiyu over.
As always, their plates were piled high, a testament to Long Shiyu’s impressive appetite.
The mutton was cooked, and Shen Chaomu picked up a few slices for Long Shiyu.
Long Shiyu asked: “Are you sure you don’t want to eat anymore?”
“Really. No more,” Shen Chaomu said, “You ask this every time you eat. I’m really full, don’t measure a human’s appetite by yours.”
“Okay,” Long Shiyu said, “You should eat more so that you won’t be so weak.”
Shen Chaomu: “…”
On the ancient tree, in their tree house hotel.
Long Shiyu lay on the recliner on the balcony and yawned, playing Landlords while blowing the air slowly. Looking from here, the distant mountains are shrouded in mist, and herds of beasts are running across the golden field.
Shen Chaomu also leaned against the railing, his black tie fluttering in the wind.
He held a cigarette in his mouth, thought about it but didn’t light it, and said, “I had a dream on the Yermak in Bei En. The scene in the dream is very similar to this, have we been here before?”
“I’ve been here before,” Long Shiyu played a card, “You gave me your fairy tale book here.”
“Why did I come here then?”
“Because you and other people from the family are here, I followed.” Long Shiyu said, “Then you told me not to show up in front of your friends, saying that they would find out that I am a dragon. So usually, I just play in the mountains by myself.”
Shen Chaomu said: “There are quite a lot of strange beasts in the mountains.”
“Yes, they didn’t bully me.”
“I’m afraid you will bully them.”
Long Shiyu looked sincere: “How could I do such a thing… In short, you will come to see me alone when you have nothing to do.”
Shen Chaomu remembered the dream scene again.
His hands were not like they are now, with several shallow scars. White clouds and mist surged from the hillside, and the silver dragon appeared silently.
Silver scales shine, eyes like bright gold.
A mythical existence, when he put his hand on the scales, he could see the joy bursting out of it.
Long Shiyu said again: “You secretly came to see me many times, and brought me food, every time you hid it from your family.”
Shen Chaomu said: “To be honest, this seems a bit like…”
Having an affair.
This is simply having an affair.
“What does it seem like?”
Shen Chaomu coughed: “It’s okay.”
A burst of game music came, and Long Shiyu went bankrupt again in the game.
Long Shiyu: “Ying.” qaq
“Stop crying, stop crying,” Shen Chaomu said, “It’s not like I won’t pay you.” There was a hurried knock on the door, and he turned his head: “Come in.”
It was Fang Qing who came in. After not seeing him for many days, he looked very haggard, with dark circles comparable to pandas.
Shen Chaomu said: “How long have you not slept doing experiments?”
“I don’t remember, I don’t remember, anyway, the new type of poison was finally developed.” Fang Qing said, “Oh, don’t talk about this, Xiao Shen, I know who reported you at that time.”
He was talking about the report that sorted out Long Shiyu as a strange beast.
Fang Qing said: “It was Qin Shi who submitted the materials.”
“…To find that kind of clue, you must be very familiar with the mercenary black market,” Shen Chaomu frowned slightly, “I don’t think he has that ability.”
He was more suspicious of Shen Di.
Fang Qing patted him on the shoulder: “This is not a conflict. Even if it is written by someone else, is it the same if it is handed over to him and reported by him? He is also a somewhat qualified hunter, and the report is very important.”
“How did you know this?”
“I know more people in the association than you.” Fang Qing smiled, “After all, he is still your senior. Qin Shi is not good at keeping secrets, and for secrets, as long as a second person knows, everyone will know.”
Shen Chaomu shrugged: “Leave him alone. He was right to report it. I did violate the association’s regulations.”
But if he had contact with Shen Di, it would be another matter.
“Compared to this,” he continued, “when are you going to return to Star City to meet Lu Shanyao? Lu Shanhuai has hinted to me several times.”
Fang Qing was stunned for a moment, and muttered: “What’s so good about this, don’t people all look the same?”
“When you suddenly resigned back then, Lu Shanyao was sad for a long time. After all, he is your favorite student.”
Fang Qing laughed: “Let’s talk about it later, there will be a chance.”
The next day, they packed their belongings. As the starship ascended, the lush forests of Tabu spread beneath them, the sunlight transforming the leaves into a shimmering mosaic. Higher still, the scars of the flying snakes’ passage were visible, the sculpted sand dunes resembling frozen waves.
When the starship rose again, they saw the dilapidated Colosseum in the depths of the forest, where the black knight once fought.
Shen Chaomu said: “I don’t know where he went.”
“I don’t know,” Long Shiyu curled up on the seat and yawned, “Maybe I went somewhere to play. But a few days ago, there were several fire meteors in a row, but it’s a pity that we couldn’t catch up to see them.”
The starship headed for the distant starry sky.
Three days later, at the Kahala Universe Transit Station.
Buck jumped onto the spaceship and shouted: “Let’s go, let’s go! Buck can’t wait any longer!”
He was holding a huge detector in his hand, which worked like a radar, but it was full of complicated formulas, and a precise coordinate was constantly changing, which was the coordinate of the mechanical planet.
Shen Chaomu set the planet coordinates on the screen, and the automatic navigation started.
He has been busy these dozens of days, just to specially apply to the association for a few days of free time to find the treasure house and fulfill his promise to Buck.
It is said to be free, but in fact the meeting has never been interrupted, and there are often urgent matters to deal with in the middle of the night. At the beginning of the late-night meeting, he wanted to change rooms, but Long Shiyu was dazed, and hooked his wrist with the tip of his tail: “Don’t go… I’m not sleepy.”
So Shen Chaomu stayed.
Long Shiyu, true to form, slept soundly throughout the journey, oblivious to the conversations and announcements swirling around him. Shen Chaomu, weary of meetings and reports, would often find the young man leaning against him, offering a comforting warmth and the opportunity for a surreptitious head pat.
The terminal’s glow illuminated Long Shiyu’s face, and he would occasionally mutter a few words such as “princess, princess” and “excellent evil dragon”.
The voice was very low, and no one else could hear it, it was a secret whispered between them.
Just like this, they kept heading towards the coordinates, and finally in the early morning of the fifth day, they arrived at a very remote corner of the Kahala galaxy.
Kahala has always been dangerous and changeable. Even their ordinary private spacecraft can only be piloted by specially trained people.
Buck stood in the cockpit – he had figured out how to read these data in the past few days. It’s just that the screen was a bit high for him, so he could only step on a small stool to see it.
He said: “In another twenty minutes, Buck will take you to find that planet… Hey, hey, what does this sign mean?”
Shen Chaomu glanced at the screen: “It means that there is a cosmic storm not far from that area. The alarm level is not high, so there will be no problem if you stay away.”
Buck took a swig of wine and continued to stare at the screen.
The spaceship automatically chose the route farthest from the space storm. When the two were closest to each other, it could still be seen on the instrument that all the data in that area were rioting and soaring rapidly, which made people feel fear just by looking at it.
In the past, when the starships were not powerful enough, small storms were enough to tear their shells apart. The situation is much better now, even if they stray into it, there will be no danger to their lives. At most, it was because of the violent shaking of the hull, bumping up and down, and the people affected would feel relieved after vomiting a few times.
But no one is crazy enough to go into the storm.
Especially the storm in Kahala.
The storms here are different from those in other galaxies. They are dangerous, frequent, and have no radiation. They are like turbulent currents and strong winds – this is of course impossible in the universe.
Going further, half a minute later, a dazzling red light flashed inside the spaceship!
Near the coordinates they were going to, a super-large cosmic storm was gathering. In the simulated data, it can be seen that a certain place suddenly dimmed, but the beating data next to it was bright red and terrifying.
It is constantly expanding, blocking the way forward like a barrier.
“What the hell is this?” Buck’s eyes widened, “Why didn’t your instrument detect it in advance?”
“The storm in Kahala is like this,” Shen Chaomu said, “Looking at this posture, it will take more than ten days for the storm to dissipate.”
“Buck can’t wait that long!” The dwarf’s beard curled up, “Anyway, after so many days, you can also use this instrument, you can find the coordinates yourself later!”
This is true, after all, the operation of that thing is not difficult.
Shen Chaomu nodded: “Okay, you can go ahead.”
The small spaceship for Buck was at the tail, filled with countless compressed food and instant noodles, a few pornographic magazines, and several large boxes of good wine that Shen Chaomu gave him.
The dwarf climbed in with some difficulty, and after several operations, the spaceship lit up with bright lights. The cabin was locked, and his rough voice came from the communication channel. He laughed and said, “Goodbye! You are a group of interesting people, and Buck will tell his people that your wine is really good!”
The spaceship slowly took off and plunged into the embrace of the void and the stars.
So, only the two of them were left.
Shen Chaomu said: “This storm may last for a while, maybe I have to wait until the next time I’m busy.”
“It’s fine to come back then.” Long Shiyu said.
Although he missed the treasure house very much, after all, he wanted to give the princess shiny gems. But after waiting for so many years, this little time is nothing at all.
There are so many things to do after becoming the chief, Shen Chaomu couldn’t wait here, so the spaceship turned around, preparing to go to a nearby planet temporarily to replenish supplies and check the situation of the association.
The super storm on the screen was still gathering, but this was the outermost edge of the Kahala galaxy, and it couldn’t affect other starships.
Long Shiyu was originally playing games on the bed, when he suddenly felt something, his eyes burned like gold for a moment, and he subconsciously looked into the depths of space——
That’s the direction of the storm.
Not only him, but Shen Chaomu also sensed something was wrong.
In the turbulent cosmic turbulence, something special is spreading.
What is it?
Is it… spiritual power?
Shen Chaomu said: “Do you want to get closer?”
“Yeah.” Long Shiyu nodded, “Go and have a look.”
Shen Chaomu controlled the ship to slowly approach the storm, still within a safe range, but the data on the screen jumped suddenly, bringing a bit of pressure. Then the radar showed that an object suspected of being a small satellite was approaching, and its density and volume were vaguely scanned, and its mass was about 500 kilograms.
There are habitable planets nearby, it may be an artificial satellite that has detached from the planet’s orbit, this kind of thing is quite common.
The object was approaching very fast, but after all, it was not very massive, and the device on the ship was enough to stop it.
Five minutes later, they saw the object.
It was off-white, with a unique shape, slightly rounded on one side and a very sharp tip on the other. The long-term space drifting caused it to be severely worn, with potholes, and it was not known what it had been hit by.
The collection equipment on the ship was running at high speed, and finally after sailing 20 kilometers synchronously, it was completely stopped. Several robotic arms protruded from the ship, firmly fixing it.
Long Shiyu looked at the scan image on the screen: “It looks a bit like…teeth.”
“It is a little bit.” Shen Chaomu nodded, “But it doesn’t look like a meteorite or a satellite fragment.”
The space storm got closer, and there was another movement on the radar.
It’s some kind of obstacle.
They couldn’t see the shape at first, and after continuing to travel five kilometers, the radar barely outlined its shape.
Around their starship, stalactite-like things appeared, two canine teeth hanging down intertwined.
“This is a slightly enclosed space nearby.” Shen Chaomu looked at the radar, “This has happened in other galaxies. It is also a relatively large ship that strayed into the interior of a hollow planet.”
He recalled: “But I haven’t heard that Kahala has that kind of honeycomb-structured asteroid. And the edge of the planet has not been detected. This kind of hollow planet of this size has never appeared before, and it needs to be specially reported to the alliance.”
In order to load the spaceship for Buck, Shen Chaomu chose the largest model among the private spaceships this time, which is almost comparable to a medium-sized military warship. But compared with those “stalactites”, it is as small as a shrimp, and it has sailed into the interior of a planet without knowing it.
Like a traveler who strayed into a giant forest, looking around, there are unfamiliar scenes. Unimaginable structure, amazing spectacle.
Compared to everything in the universe, they are so small.
They can’t see or hear anything, only the radar acts as their eyes, slowly seeing this huge structure. The stalactites just blocked the distant starlight, and they fumbled forward in the darkness, trying to glimpse another secret.
Long Shiyu stood at the front of the starship and looked up from the huge glass.
He said: “Ribs.”
“It’s not a planet. I know this spiritual power. This is the rib of a ghost whale, and we are in its skeleton.”
The ship drifted in the darkness, and the storm raged in the distance.
The huge skeleton, like a planet, was silent, and I don’t know how many years have passed.
At the same time, the terminal analyzed the composition of the object just now.
Very special, but indeed very similar to bone.
This discovery was so shocking that the two were speechless for a while.
The ship continued to fly, the journey was very depressing and long, they were careful.
Another ten kilometers ahead, the radar detected… signs of life.
This is equally unbelievable. Shen Chaomu controlled the spaceship to go in that direction, and soon approached a huge land on the planet.
It is said to be land, but it should actually be another bone, but it is not broken, and it is still connected to the overall structure.
The spaceship landed slowly, and a prompt sounded: [Oxygen detected, oxygen content 28%, temperature is too low, air pressure is too low, it is recommended to wear a type III space suit to go out of the cabin for activities]
[Repeat: Oxygen detected, oxygen content 28%, temperature is too low, air pressure is too low, it is recommended to wear a type III space suit to go out of the cabin for activities]
But in the deepest part of space, how can there be life and oxygen?
The searchlight of the spaceship was turned on to the maximum, and before they could see the scene in front of them clearly, the huge bone drifted away from its original place.
The angle changed, so from behind them, a ray of dazzling starlight miraculously shone. Soon a wisp turned into a piece, shining brightly.
Like the sunrise of the universe.
They saw the soft green grass under their feet, the edges of a few white flowers were outlined by the light, they trembled slightly, cheering and jumping. At the end of the field of vision, unseen alien beasts glide through the void in groups, their fur is dark, and they stare at the intruder with curious eyes.
Looking carefully, the entire huge skeleton turned out to be such a vibrant scene. Lives adapted to weightlessness have taken root here, vegetation is lush, and they form an ecosystem of their own. Beyond anyone’s cognition, it is not a lonely death, but a whale who fell from space.
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The author has something to say: Daily Ying (1/1) The dragon has not lost its horse yet, although it has been guessed almost, the princess is still looking for key evidence (according to usual experience, this is not difficult to find. Today is the day the princess who only realized that they were having an affair nine hundred years ago. After becoming the chief, the salary is higher, and you can also engage in conference play (?)
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